Thread: Accused Boston Marathon bomber indicted by grand jury

Accused Boston Marathon bomber indicted by grand jury

A photograph of Djohar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, is seen on his page of Russian social networking site Vkontakte (VK), as pictured on a monitor and a mobile phone in St. Petersburg April 19, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk

By Scott Malone
Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:35pm EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury has indicted accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on charges of killing four people and using a weapon of mass destruction, federal prosecutors in Boston said on Thursday.
Tsarnaev, 19, is one of two ethnic Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the April 15 attack, which killed three people. A fourth victim, a university police officer, died in a gunfight with the pair four days later as authorities raced to capture them.
The younger Tsarnaev, who was badly injured in that gun battle, has been held in a prison hospital west of Boston since his capture on April 19.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/27/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBRE95Q12J20130627

Grand jury returns 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston Marathon bombings

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, June 27, 11:16 AM

BOSTON — A federal grand jury on Thursday returned a 30-count indictment against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, and many of the charges carry the possibility of life in prison or the death penalty.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was indicted on charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death.

Three people were killed and more than 260 injured in twin explosions near the finish line of the marathon on April 15. The charges also cover the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who authorities say was shot to death in his cruiser by the Tsarnaevs a few days after the bombing.
Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed following a shootout with police on April 19.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured later that day hiding in a boat in a backyard in Watertown, Mass. According to the indictment, he wrote a message on the inside of the boat that said, among other things, “The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians,” ‘’I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished,” and “We Muslims are one body you hurt one you hurt us all.”
The Tsarnaev brothers had roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Islamic extremists. They had been living in the United States for about a decade.
Authorities said each of the brothers placed a knapsack containing a shrapnel-packed pressure cooker bomb near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race. The bombs went off within seconds of one another.
The U.S. attorney’s office says 17 of the charges against Tsarnaev could bring life in prison or the death penalty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/grand-jury-returns-30-count-indictment-against-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-in-boston-marathon-bombings/2013/06/27/76999b1c-df51-11e2-8cf3-35c1113cfcc5_story.html